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Identity and Experience in the New Testament: A Historical Psychology - Softcover

Klaus Berger; Charles A. Muenchow

 
9780800627799: Identity and Experience in the New Testament: A Historical Psychology

Synopsis

How do the New Testament documents present issues of passion, will, identity, and perception? How did the earliest followers of Jesus understand their experiences, behaviors, and suffering? These questions and more are addressed in this stimulating work by one of the most productive Continental New Testament scholars. Rather than approaching the New Testament with a Freudian, Jungian, or other modern psychological theory, Berger illuminates historically how peoples of the first century described their human experiences in relation to their encounters with God, Christ, demons, and the power of their own desires and will.

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About the Author

Klaus Berger is Professor of New Testament Theology at the University of Heidelberg. He is the author of a dozen scholarly works, including Hellenistic Commentary to the New Testament (1995), and The Truth under Lock and Key? Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls (1995).

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